Metallica’s latest effort Hardwired…To Self-Destruct has placed at the #1 spot on Billboard’s year-end 2017 selling charts for the top 50 Hard Rock Albums along with the band being placed at #1 on their top 10 Hard Rock Album Artists. Despite their tenth studio album being released back in November, 2016, it did move 1.1 million units this year along with being certified platinum this past spring. This could have everything to do with how they bundled the LP with their ticket packages, and we know their North American tour was massive.
Speaking of Metallica, their 1991 self-titled aka Black album was placed on Billboard’s charts as well at number 2 on their top 50 Hard Rock Albums charts after shifting 268,000 units this year. Additionally, if you scroll down the same list, you will see more Metallica with 1988’s …And Justice For All at 14, and 1986’s Master of Puppets ranking at 16.
Other artists include Linkin Park, Foo Fighters, Guns N’ Roses, Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch, AC/DC, Soundgarden, Audioslave, Mastodon, Starset, Nothing More, KoRn, In This Moment, Marilyn Manson, and more.
Check out the top sellers below:
01) Metallica
02) Linkin Park
03) Foo Fighters
04) Queen
05) Guns N’ Roses
06) Nickelback
07) Disturbed
08) Five Finger Death Punch
09) Led Zeppelin
10) Journey
01) Metallica – Hardwired… To Self-Destruct
02) Metallica – Metallica
03) Linkin Park – [Hybrid Theory]
04) Guns N’ Roses – Greatest Hits
05) Queen – Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection
06) Foo Fighters – Concrete And Gold
07) Disturbed – Immortalized
08) Journey – Journey’s Greatest Hits
09) Led Zeppelin – Mothership
10) AC/DC – Back In Black
11) Foo Fighters – Greatest Hits
12) Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell: volume 1
13) Linkin Park – Meteora
14) Metallica – …And Justice For All
15) Queens of the Stone Age – Villains
16) Metallica – Master of Puppets
17) Aerosmith – Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits
18) Bon Jovi – Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection
19) Nickelback – Feed the Machine
20) Queen – Greatest Hits
21) Nickelback – All the Right Reasons
22) Skillet – Unleashed
23) Lifelines – I Prevail
24) Trans-Siberian Orchestra – The Ghosts of Christmas Eve
25) Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage
26) Five Finger Death Punch – Got Your Six
27) Mastodon – Emperor of Sand
28) 3 Doors Down – The Greatest Hits
29) Nickelback – The Best of Nickelback: Volume 1
30) Soundgarden – Superunknown
31) Stone Sour – Hydrograd
32) Papa Roach – Crooked Teeth
33) Linkin Park – Minutes to Midnight
34) Audioslave – Audioslave
35) Three Days Grace – One – X
36) Marilyn Manson – Heaven Upside Down
37) Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet
38) Seether – Poison The Parish
39) Highly Suspect – The Boy Who Died Wolf
40) Rise Against – Wolves
41) AFI – AFI (The Blood Album)
42) KoRn – The Serenity of Suffering
43) In This Moment – Ritual
44) System of a Down – Toxicity
45) Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction
46) Jimi Hendrix – Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
47) Prophets of Rage – Prophets of Rage
48) Nothing More – The Stories We Tell Ourselves
49) Royal Blood – How Did We Get So Dark?
50) Starset – Vessels
[via ThePrp]
